I will admit to being quite naive, but my decision to use the hard-to-adjust Weber carb doesn't seem so impossible when I see so many postings like this. perhaps phase II I will have fuel injection. besides, I have Lynn to help me! ☺
KevinLane Carpentry
I am old.................
My faith in low voltage electronics is also lacking. I like things that are bad or failed to look bad or failed. I like to see a broken wire, or a piece broken off or turned black by over use. It was bad enough when the stuff was big enough to see, like a transistor or SCR, but now we have little rectangular bits of plastic with gold wires strung along the sides. The bad ones and the good ones are identical. I like fuses and clogged filters to pop up little red flags when full or failed. There are such things.
Even a Multi-meter can kill off the good ones should you be so foolish as to begin probing for voltage on a circuit board.
I like electrical devices to be the minimum size of a ford starter solenoid, and to make a similar amount of noise when they function.
But I am alive thanks to such marvals, and many of my friends walk about well after their years were used up, because they have such gizmos in their chests, sparking them along, and jolting them back to life when they slow down too much.
I used to work in a building with 9,000 other folks who made giant pieces for mechanical relay type central office equipment for AT&T. Remember the real phone company? Those big red brick buildings all around the country housed our relay equipment. Those buildings and that equipment are long gone in most countries. Now a greenish grey box about 1foot square and 4 feet tall sits near an intersection, and does the job of a dozen such brick buildings.
So the stuff is here and it is going to stay, so I try to get along with it. I watch a TV set that has not one tube in it, not even the screen. I looked inside my computer and no tubes. I talk to people who should be dead. So if Tracy wants to make things without the use of tubes or Ford starter relays, fine, I will try to learn.
I had a picture some time back of a mans thumbnail with a small wasp sitting on it. The wasp had a range of 2 miles. It had a color TV camera. It reported its position in GPS format. It returned high quality sound and video. It could sit and watch and listen for a number of hours. A soldier can be trained to fly this thing in an hour. What could we be doing with these things?
Just got back to Hebron Ohio, from wintering in Florida and Sun&Fun. Got to put some faces with some names. Plane people are so smart and so nice to deal with. And I drove all the way back in my 99 Dodge minivan with 205,000 trouble free miles on it and its magic computer full of ICs. So everyone but Airbus Industries has a handle on this stuff. They just had one land with one engine below flight idle and one at 70% power, uncommanded. Perhaps Lucas is doing their computers?
This computer tuning thing will come to us, as did the carb tuning thing. It is logical, as is the carb thing. It is a great tuning aid as in, tuning a lean condition on B and if it is not working a switch back to A gets things right again. The flying plane is a dyno room. It does not get better than that.
Lynn E. Hanover